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In Reply to: RE: Great Falcon LS3/5a Review by Paul Seydor posted by Isaak J. Garvey on April 15, 2016 at 07:08:16
Then it was my mistake, Isaac. Well, as regards hi-res USB inputs and all that, I confess to being something of Luddite here. Well, not exactly a Luddite, but, look at this way, as a film editor I all my work on computers these days and have done for the last twenty years; same with writing. At the end of the day, when I listen to music, I don't want to have to use a computer and list of titles. I want to browse the shelves, I want to hold physical media in my hand. I grant the sonics are better when hi res downloads--at least all things being equal--but I guess for me they're not that much better that I don't prefer the way I do it now. I mean, I go to the shelf to listen to a Beethoven symphony and in the course of the browsing, well, be damned if I didn't notice as I ran my fingers across the titles that I haven't listened to the Berlioz Te Deum in a good while. Such are the joys of physical media and old fashioned browsing.
But, yes, I agree that readers should be aware of all this and fortunately we have enough reviewers at TAS that I think all aspects are adequately satisfied.
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If you refer to a particular track in a review as sounding a particular way with a given piece of gear, there is a good chance the reader has heard that track of that CD and doesn't have to wonder about which version/bit depth/sample rate file you might have downloaded not to mention PCM vs. DSD.I go to a lot of shows(CES/T.H.E/RMAF/Etc.) and one of the irritations is everyone is playing music from computers and we REALLY have no idea what we are hearing. Not to mention the possibility of DSP in the Computer Software such as Amarra, HDTracks, or worse, room correction.
Edits: 04/15/16
You know, Ivan, I never thought of it in quite that way and this is an excellent, indeed brilliant point. Write a letter to this effect to TAS ASAP,
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